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Wiki.com is very cool. Think of it as Google for wikis. The site let’s you choose to search all wikis, just Wikipedia, all "indie" wikis, or just encyclopedia style wikis.

Wiki.com
tags: wiki, search, web2.0, searchengine, wikis, tools

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Lot’s of good Entourage tutorials here. There are step-by-step courses as well as video tutorials.

3DCADTips: External site: www.microsoft.com
tags: Entourage, tutorials

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Free online screencasting tool
Edit: Click here for a larger version

Click the preceding link for a short introduction to our new WebMail using Exchange Server. The video is less than three minutes & covers logging in, creating new emails, synchronization between the web & your desktop, & contacts – including distribution lists.
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Starting school year 2009-2010 District 62 will no longer support Appleworks. I know this will be painful for some users, but for us to continue to move forward with new projects we have to cut loose old & outdated solutions. Appleworks falls into that category.
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From MakeUseOf.com comes this list of handy YouTube URL tricks. Probably of most use to educators are the ability to post directly to a specific section of a video, hiding the search box, and disabling related videos. They’re all pretty cool, & hopefully some make your life easier.

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This Ning site is a great resource for using iPods in class.

iPod Educators – Educational podcasters reaching the iPod generation
tags: podcasting, ipod, podcasters, ning, education

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Google Tips

Creating temporary or fake emails for students
Embedding Google Calendars in your web space
Using Google docs as webspace

tags: google, gmail, googletricks, googlehacks

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With the release of Google Earth 5 beta Google is giving us a heaping helping of watery goodness. The oceans get the same treatment that land has gotten in this update. And why not, since more that 70% of the Earth’s surface is covered by oceans. Download Google Earth 5 & check it out.
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I was in a meeting today (IIC! – get it?) and Principal Swanson said he had a link that he would email all of us. I saw my chance & I took it. You see, John has blog – but John doesn’t have a Delicious.com account. I said (piped in, really) that if John had [...]

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In Orchard Place Workshop!

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